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Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design

You're reading from   Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design Take your AuotoCAD design skills to the next dimension by creating powerful 3D models.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849699358
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction to 3D Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Visualizing 3D Models 3. Coordinate Systems 4. Creating Solids and Surfaces from 2D 5. 3D Primitives and Conversions 6. Editing in 3D 7. Editing Solids and Surfaces 8. Inquiring the 3D model 9. Documenting a 3D Model 10. Rendering and Illumination 11. Materials and Effects 12. Meshes and Surfaces Final Considerations Index

Meshes


Meshes are 3D objects that can simulate smooth or organic models. These meshes are represented by planar faces that enclose the object, called tessellation. Meshes were introduced in Version 2010 with additional commands added in Version 2011. The normal workflow for meshes is roughly creating the model and then smoothing it.

There are three possibilities for creating meshes: primitives, from linear objects, or by conversion. Several commands are available to edit or smooth meshes.

Access to commands

The mesh commands are on the ribbon, Mesh panel, the Draw/Modeling menu bar, and the Smooth Mesh toolbar.

Creating primitive meshes

There is one command to create primitive meshes and another to specify default parameters for these meshes.

The MESH command

The MESH command (no alias) creates meshes with the six basic geometric shapes. The command starts by displaying the current smoothness level and prompts for the type of shape:

Command: MESH
Current smoothness level is set to: 0
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